Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@c-s.fr> writes:
> On 09/06/2018 09:58 AM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@c-s.fr> writes:
>>
>>> Today flags like for instance _PAGE_RW or _PAGE_USER are used through
>>> common parts of code.
>>> Using those directly in common parts of code have proven to lead to
>>> mistakes or misbehaviour, because their use is not always as trivial
>>> as one could think.
>>>
>>> For instance, (flags & _PAGE_USER) == 0 isn't enough to tell
>>> that a page is a kernel page, because some targets are using
>>> _PAGE_PRIVILEDGED and not _PAGE_USER, so the test has to be
>>> (flags & (_PAGE_USER | _PAGE_PRIVILEDGED)) == _PAGE_PRIVILEDGED
>>> This has to (bad) consequences:
>>>
>>> - All targets must define every bit, even the unsupported ones,
>>> leading to a lot of useless #define _PAGE_XXX 0
>>> - If someone forgets to take into account all possible _PAGE_XXX bits
>>> for the case, we can get unexpected behaviour on some targets.
>>>
>>> This becomes even more complex when we come to using _PAGE_RW.
>>> Testing (flags & _PAGE_RW) is not enough to test whether a page
>>> if writable or not, because:
>>>
>>> - Some targets have _PAGE_RO instead, which has to be unset to tell
>>> a page is writable
>>> - Some targets have _PAGE_R and _PAGE_W, in which case
>>> _PAGE_RW = _PAGE_R | _PAGE_W
>>> - Even knowing whether a page is readable is not always trivial because:
>>> - Some targets requires to check that _PAGE_R is set to ensure page
>>> is readable
>>> - Some targets requires to check that _PAGE_NA is not set
>>> - Some targets requires to check that _PAGE_RO or _PAGE_RW is set
>>>
>>> Etc ....
>>>
>>> In order to work around all those issues and minimise the risks of errors,
>>> this serie aims at removing all use of _PAGE_XXX flags from powerpc code
>>> and always use pte_xxx() and pte_mkxxx() accessors instead. Those accessors
>>> are then defined in target specific parts of the kernel code.
>>
>> The series is really good. It also helps in code readability. Few things
>> i am not sure there is a way to reduce the overhead
>>
>> - access = _PAGE_EXEC;
>> + access = pte_val(pte_mkexec(__pte(0)));
>>
>> Considering we have multiple big endian to little endian coversion there
>> for book3s 64.
>
> Thanks for the review.
>
> For the above, I propose the following:
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
> b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
> index f23a89d8e4ce..904ac9c84ea5 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
> @@ -1482,7 +1482,7 @@ static bool should_hash_preload(struct mm_struct
> *mm, unsigned long ea)
> #endif
>
> void hash_preload(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long ea,
> - unsigned long access, unsigned long trap)
> + bool is_exec, unsigned long trap)
> {
> int hugepage_shift;
> unsigned long vsid;
> @@ -1490,6 +1490,7 @@ void hash_preload(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned
> long ea,
> pte_t *ptep;
> unsigned long flags;
> int rc, ssize, update_flags = 0;
> + unsigned long access = is_exec ? _PAGE_EXEC : 0;
I guess it will be better if we do
unsigned long access = _PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_READ
if (is_exec)
access |= _PAGE_EXEC.
That will also bring it closer to __hash_page. I agree that we should
always find _PAGE_PRESENT and _PAGE_READ set, because we just handled
the page fault.
-aneesh
